Hooked On Heroin

Author : Philip Lalander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000190250
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hooked on Heroin written by Philip Lalander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alarmingly, heroin is growing in popularity amongst young people. This is despite the fact that it is - more than any other drug - associated with failure, death, misery and poverty. This book explores why people are tempted by heroin and how globalization has played a key role in increasing the number of abusers. Rather than offer lofty and abstract theories on addiction, the author grounds his study firmly in the day-to-day lives of heroin users themselves. Norrköping in Sweden is a mid-sized former industrial city like countless others throughout the world. It has suffered high unemployment as a result of its rapid decline as a hub of commerce. Once well known for housing the giant telecommunications company Ericsson, it sadly gains more notoriety today through its associations with heroin, which continues to be the drug of choice for Norrköping's young people. Through privileged access to users themselves, Lalander is able to show us the real motivations and lifestyle choices behind addiction. Personal testimonies candidly expose the underground activities of a thriving subculture and spark vexing questions as to why these young people choose to flirt with fatality. What media representations influence heroin users? Is this phenomenon the inevitable by-product of modern life? What are the root causes at play?Lalander's in-depth investigation overturns many of the stereotypes associated with heroin use. Accessible and gripping, Hooked on Heroin brings a disturbing reality closer to home and shows how global and local practices are intimately linked.

Author : Susan Elliot Wright
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9780739868942
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroin written by Susan Elliot Wright and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the effects of heroin on the human body, the dangers of heroin abuse, and heroin abuse treatment and prevention.

Author : Documentation Associates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drugs and Addict Lifestyles written by Documentation Associates and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sandra Lee Smith
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823933136
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroin written by Sandra Lee Smith and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses heroin and its unique qualities and dangers and counsels against illegal involvement with the drug.

Author : Marie Minnich
Publisher : Marie Minnich via PublishDrive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Daughter's Addiction written by Marie Minnich and published by Marie Minnich via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is the harrowing story of one mother's journey through the hell of her daughter's heroin addiction. It is also a topical memoir that traces the social history of drug use from the youth culture of the 1960's to present time, and also examines public policy on drug abuse and its impact on our criminal justice system. The author’s story begins as a young woman whose mother, an antiques dealer, was murdered in her upscale suburban antiques shop in 1968; 3 days after the Chicago Democratic Convention where cops and hippies clashed in a historic confrontation. Subsequently, the author emerged into the youth culture of the 60’s, where rampant drug experimentation was the norm. Out of this chaos, the author then examines her personal history from that personal and social historic moment, leading to her subsequent marriage to an alcoholic, and then to the three children who were the offspring of that marriage. From the time her oldest daughter was a teenager her daughter exhibited addictive personality traits, culminating in a serious heroin addiction and consequent enmeshment in the criminal justice system. On the night of August 18, 2009, at 32 years of age, her daughter lost the battle to her addiction and died of a drug overdose. The suffering this addiction inflicted on her daughter, the family, and society at large is examined in an unflinching portrayal of the nefarious forces at work. Addiction is indeed a thief that steals a promising future from anyone who suffers from these compulsive behaviors, and it steals in an indiscriminate manner from all echelons of society. This moving story makes a brave attempt to understand solutions and treatments for drug addiction. Although the subject matter is gritty, the story is neither gloomy nor depressing, and may offer hope to families of addicts worldwide

Author : Ritchie Farrell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545319345
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Heroin Addict written by Ritchie Farrell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of compelling honesty. The writing is so powerful, so brutally sure of voice and experience that the reader is immediately jolted straight into the hellish existence of addiction." - Mary McGarry Morris, New York Times Bestselling Author "I am a Heroin Addict" was previously published as "What's Left of Us" by Kensington in 2009. However, there was no heroin epidemic at the time. Today, the opioid epidemic has become America's worst health crisis ever. Accidental drug overdoses killed more people in 2015 than HIV/AIDS at its 1995 peak. Heroin is a Beast, and that Beast has infiltrated every town and city in America. The Beast has come for your sons and daughters. The Beast is hunting for your fathers and mothers. And that Beast has only one mission, to bury as many Americans as possible. Farrell's ultimate goal is that his life story brings hope to all those suffering through the insidious trap of opioid addiction. "I am a Heroin Addict" is the story of how Ritchie Farrell survived a 10-bag-a-day heroin habit to become a bestselling author, WGA screenwriter, and recipient of the prestigious du-Pont-Columbia Award for excellence in journalism. "In the stripped-down, busted-and-back voice of a man with absolutely nothing left to hide, Farrell gives us this deeply moving tale of addiction and redemption. I am a Heroin Addict is a rush of blood to the head and heart, the kind that only true art can deliver." Andre Dubus III, New York Times Bestselling Author "How Ritchie Farrell survived his life, I'll never know." - Scott Silver, Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter of 8 Mile and The Fighter "A wild ride from start to finish. Riveting." - Chris Cooper, Academy Award Winning Actor "Ritchie Farrell's raw and visceral writing grabs you, slams you into the soul of an addict, and doesn't let go until you experience the courage it takes to wage a life-or-death war against your inner demons." Harry Ufland, Producer of The Last Temptation of Christ "It is a testament to Farrell's stunning writing power that he carries you on this rollercoaster ride of ugliness and beauty. Don't miss it." - Phyllis Karas, New York Times Bestselling Author

Author : Michael Wesley Clune
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 161649493X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Out written by Michael Wesley Clune and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clune’s gripping account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other, as we enter the mind of the addict and navigate the world therein. How do you describe an addiction in which the drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the first time--new, fascinating, and vivid? Michael W. Clune’s original, edgy yet literary telling of his own story takes us straight inside such an addiction--what he calls the Memory Disease.With black humor and quick, rhythmic prose, Clune’s gripping account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other, as we enter the mind of the addict and navigate the world therein. Clune whisks us between the streets of Baltimore and the university campus, revealing his dual life while a graduate student teaching literature. We spiral downward with Clune--from nodding off in an abandoned row-house with a one-armed junkie and a murderous Jesus freak to scanning a crowded lecture hall for an enemy with a gun.After experiencing his descent into addiction, we go with him through detox, treatment, and finally into recovery as he returns to his childhood home and to the world of color. It is there that the Memory Disease and his heroin-induced white out begins to fade.

Author : Humberto Fernandez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1592859909
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroin written by Humberto Fernandez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-the-minute, comprehensive examination of heroin's history, pharmacology, psychology, and sociology, Heroin offers a spellbinding account of the drug's power and persistent allure, its medicinal benefits, and its destructive nature. This updated and expanded second edition provides new research into heroin's effects on the brain, the changing attitudes and policies about methadone and medications, and the different approaches to treating heroin addicts. Included are studies of violence along the U.S.-Mexican border--which has put heroin trafficking in the spotlight--as well as a focus on how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made opium a valuable commodity and a major source of funds for terrorists. Animated with vivid personal stories and vignettes, Heroin puts a human face on the long and complex story behind this notorious drug.

Author : Marsha Rosenbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women on Heroin written by Marsha Rosenbaum and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Corona Brezina
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1435850173
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroin written by Corona Brezina and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the nature and effects of heroin, why people use it, and the dangers of its use.